Transcribing the field notes of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology

Collector: Grinnell - 1925 Location: Mineral, 4800 Date: July 2 Page Number: 2513

With Mrs. G. around and thru [sic] willow bogs and thru [sic] adjacent tracts of lodgepole pines on "Battle Creek Meadows." Associates in one area of willow thickets, tall grass, blossoming herbs, and luxurious verotrum, with here and there fallen lodgepole pines, snags, and some standing trees of same species, were: Song Sparrow, Lincoln Sparrow, Lazuli Bunting, Traill Flycatcher, Sierra Junco, Golden Pileolated Warbler and Yellow Warbler. A nearby abundance of Labrador tea emphasized the Canadian Boreal complexion of this aggregation - and yet there were the Buntings and Song Sparrows. We spent a good deal of time in our efforts to collect males of the latter - I don't shoot females of adult birds now, for really all of them are obviously concerned for young, either in the nest or at large but still dependent. Heard a Grouse "hooting" in the same tract of lodgepoles where we found the young on the 20th (June). It appears that the males, at least here, do stay in the vicinity of their broods and that they continue to "hoot" long after the actual mating season.

In a tract of good-sized, much branched lodgepoles across the highway in the main big meadow, we found a Calliope Hummer's nest. I heard the hum overhead and caught sight of the female just in time to see her go on to the nest, where she staid a minute moving about. Later we watched her 50 yards or so off plucking web from dead branches in the shade 10 feet up, which web she took to the nest. She